Here is something I read today in my Earth Pathways diary, that I found really inspiring & motivating, so I really wanted to share it...

"Through recognising ourselves as part of systems that influence other systems, and that each system on the planet is connected, we move from thinking that what we do doesn't matter, to realising that our actions have consequences and are meaningful. Many of the ripples of our actions are beyond our awareness. Systems act through their parts, as in starling murmurations, where each bird is contributing to the whole system. Each small action we take is part of a bigger story. Whenever we do something or act in a certain way we can ask ourselves what is it a part of? What am I part of? What flow am I contributing to?

We don't know where the tipping points are with climate change. We don't know what disasters might emerge from the combined effects of all the stresses we are placing on ecosystems. Equally though, we don't know the tipping points for Earth recovery. We don't know how our actions when combined together can bring about positive change. The words emergency and emergence have the same Latin root 'emergere' meaning to arise out of; so perhaps the emergencies we face will give rise to opportunities for emergence. As individuals there are limits to how much we can achieve. There can be a trap of thinking I can't, but with emergence we can shift this to the potential of working together and we can."

Opening up to thinking in Systems, (Copyright) Looby Macnamara ~ Taken from Earth Pathways Diary 2017

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